Technical Program Director Jobs in Silver Spring, MD

Who We Are:
Kudu Dynamics is Leidos Owned Company, forged out of a decade of experience in computer network operations and staffed with talent who have built, overseen, and enhanced capabilities throughout the entire USG arsenal. Our team of hackers and engineers have experience spanning centuries of research, development, and operations missions - across desktop, mobile, IoT, and embedded platforms. Kudu Dynamics, a Leidos company is uniquely qualified to anticipate tomorrow's threats and build the next generation of capabilities.

We are seeking a Technical Program Manager to lead execution across the teams developing an AI-powered, autonomous vulnerability operations platform. The role sits between vulnerability researchers, software engineers, machine learning engineers, and government stakeholders, and is responsible for translating an evolving technical capability into a product delivered on a predictable release cadence.

Responsibilities could span roadmap and release planning, dependency management across model providers and third-party components, and coordination of accreditation and deployment timelines for a range of implementation environments and diverse customer stakeholders. The Technical Program Manager will maintain sufficient technical depth to evaluate estimates, identify unstated dependencies, and communicate scope, schedule, and risk accurately to both engineering teams and senior stakeholders.

Required Experience:

• 10+ years of professional experience in technical program management, engineering management, or product development, including delivery of software products to production.
• Experience owning technical delivery from concept through production release, including scoping, sequencing, and driving execution across multiple engineering disciplines without direct authority.
• Technical fluency sufficient to review design documentation, evaluate estimates, and manage dependencies at the architecture level. Hands-on engineering background preferred.
• Experience managing software deployments and release processes at scale across multiple cloud, on-premises, and air-gapped or classified installations, including the constraints those environments place on release cadence and update paths.
• Experience delivering in a government or regulated environment, including management of accreditation timelines (RMF, ATO, and continuous ATO) as schedule dependencies.
• Experience managing programs which incorporating AI/ML or agentic components.
• Demonstrated ability to communicate program status, risk, and tradeoffs to engineering teams, executive leadership, and customer stakeholders.

Relevant Skills:

Program Execution

• Roadmap development, release planning, and cadence management, actual/planned program financials
• Cross-team dependency mapping and critical path management
• Risk identification, mitigation planning, and escalation
• Agile, Scrum, SAFe, or Kanban at team and program level
• Program metrics and reporting, including Release Health, and Progress Briefs

Technical Program Manager - Job Description:

Technical Fluency

• Software development lifecycle and DevSecOps pipelines
• CI/CD, build integrity, and release engineering
• Cloud and on-premises infrastructure, containers, and Kubernetes
• API and integration planning across systems and vendors
• Vulnerability management workflows and security tooling (SAST, DAST, SCA)
• AI/LLM system delivery, including evaluation frameworks, model orchestration, and benchmarking

Preferred Qualifications:

• Prior experience supporting vulnerability research, offensive security, or cyber operations programs
• Experience transitioning research or prototype capability into a sustained product
• Active security clearance
• Certifications such as PMP,

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